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Check out Landit Landit, the platform helping users get ahead in their careers, has ended its $13 million Series A funding round. WeWork led the funding round. Other investors include Connectivity Partners, Morgan Stanley, and Gingerbread Capital. Connectivity Partners focuses on early-stage...

NASA announced plans to rename a facility after legendary mathematician Katherine Johnson paying tribute to her lasting impact on space exploration. In a February 22 ceremony, Johnson, a West Virginia native, was presented with a building on the NASA complex in honor...

The deal could give the Obamas access to an audience of 118 million Netflix subscribers. The shows could feature inspirational stories, sources familiar with the talks said. They could be about issues that took center stage during Obama’s presidency, such...

Nas has made a name for himself in Silicon Valley. Now that Amazon has acquired the company for a whopping $1.2 billion, Nas has earned a pretty penny for his early investment in Ring, a smart doorbell company. WeBuyBlack reports the rapper has made over...

Grammy-award winning musician and one-time Chicago Public Schools student Chance the Rapper surprised dozens of fifth-graders at a South Shore school Wednesday, where he crashed a coding class and, separately, stood with executives from Google’s charitable arm to announce a $1.5 million donation to...

“I’m tearing up!” shouts entrepreneur Teresa Hodge. “I feel like a proud mom.” Hodge is beaming after a presentation by Marcus Bullock, the founder of Flikshop, an app through which family and friends can send photo postcards to inmates. It’s a...